I asked them about this in March of this year. I wrote them this: --- Subject: legal question Does this: >"a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and full

I asked them about this in March of this year. I wrote them this: --- Subject: legal question Does this: >"a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content" (quote from [link][https://www.grammarly.com/terms] https://www.grammarly.com/terms]) Mean: "We can use or sell your text to anyone, in any form, without paying you any royalty." (my translation) ? I notice despite all of the words about "fully-paid" and "royalty", it doesn't use any words like "publish", nor "sell". Could Grammarly sell a book of its users' writing? IANAL, so I may have misread the clause. (The other quoted clauses were what I would have expected. Thank you, [my name] --- 5 minutes after sending (a Monday), I received this automated reply: --- Subject: Your request # [xxxxxx] | legal question ##- Please type your reply above this line -## Thanks for contacting us here at Grammarly! This is an automated reply to let you know we’ve received your request. We know you’re busy, so we will work quickly to get you an answer and let you get on with your day. While we’re working on this request, you can pop over to support.grammarly.com to check our Knowledge Base, where you’ll find lots of helpful information about our products. Talk soon, Your friends at Grammarly --- The next day a different agent replied: Hello [my name], Thanks for reaching out! The Ownership section of the Terms of Service should address your concern. It states “All intellectual property rights in and to the User Content are and shall remain your property, and Grammarly shall acquire no right of ownership with respect to your User Content.” Here’s what that means: By using Grammarly, you are giving us a nonexclusive license to use your content in connection with providing our services. In other words, you’re giving us formal permission to provide writing suggestions and corrections to you and to use your writing to improve our algorithms. You remain the owner of your content. For example, if you write a novel while using Grammarly, the copyright remains under your control. That means that only you have the right to sell, publish, or distribute your novel. Importantly, please note that Grammarly does not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. Best regards, Alice ---- I thought that was an awesome and well-written reply, so I said: Hi Alice, Wow, that is a great (and convincing) answer! One last question: did you use grammarly to help you write this impactful answer? Best regards, [my name] ------ And received the reply Sure! Grammarly helps us ensure our writing is polished, impactful, and mistake-free. Kindly, Alice ---------- So it's clear that according to their support agents, they don't own a book you write. Of course, the support agent could be wrong.